India, Oct. 4 -- Highlighting the shifting dynamics of geopolitics, India's external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Sunday identified the shift in US policy and China's ascent as the twin pillars defining the current world order.

Jaishankar was speaking at the the Munich Leaders Meeting in Delhi on Sunday where he referred to "radical repositioning of the United States" due to which it has in a way "deliberately become a lonelier power". He said the sharp competition in the global landscape is not limited to US and China is but has has led to "weaponisation of any leverage that any country has".

"No one in the room would disagree with the fact that the landscape today is primarily marked by a radical repositioning of the United States...